59%
Say Border Control More Important to Immigration Reform - Rasmussen Reports™
ARIZONA, UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION, ENDORSES ROMNEY, WHILE THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS STILL STAND BEHIND THEIR MAN OBAMA!
OBAMA HAS SUED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF AZ ON BEHALF OF HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS, HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY IN AZ, AND MADE BORDER SECURITY A JOKE!
NEXT TO MEXICO CITY, PHOENIX IS THE CAPITAL OF MEXICAN KIDNAPPING, HOME INVASION, CAR THEFT, AND GATEWAY FOR THE SOUTHERN INVASION OF THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!
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http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/arizona-gov-brewer-endorses-mitt-romney_26.html
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PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
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TOWNHALL.com
Whose Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
How's that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?
The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.
If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.
A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
What we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right, the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the president of the United States.
Why is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20 million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
OBAMA THE HISPANDERING PRESIDENT SELLING OUT HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the "path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty-- that the 2007 plan of George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.
Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price.
Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government -- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.
What are we doing to our own people?
Whose country is this, anyway?
America today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws, countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless, under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
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PHOENIX THE LA RAZA MEXICAN KIDNAPPING CAPITAL of AMERICA
Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.
Washington Too Concerned With al Qaeda Terrorists to Care, Officials Say
By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and ASA ESLOCKER
February 11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.
Wave of abductions hit Phoenix. Is Washington paying enough attention?
"We're in the eye of the storm," Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News of the violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by Mexico's drug cartels that have expanded business across the border. "If it doesn't stop here, if we're not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across the nation," he said.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S. government focuses so intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of terrorists – those involved with the same kidnappings, extortion and drug cartels that are sweeping Phoenix – are overlooked. (LA RAZA DEM JERRY BROWN JUST SIGNED A LAW IN HIS OWN STATE MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY! PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THEIR PAYMASTER IS A MAJOR AGENDA OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, NOW PARTY FOR ILLEGALS, EXPANDED LA RAZA WELFARE STATE, OPEN BORDERS, PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH!)
JUDICIAL WATCH: Kidnapping Capital of U.S.
U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?
"Those [criminals], for the average Californian or the average America, may be a more immediate threat to their well being," Brown said.
In fact, kidnappings and other crimes connected to the Mexican drug cartels are quickly spreading across the border, from Texas to California. The majority of the victims are either illegal aliens or connected to the drug trade.
An ABC News' investigation uncovered horrific cases of chopped-off hands, legs and heads when a victim's family doesn't pay up fast enough.
"They're ruthless, so now they're ripping each other off, but doing it in our city," Anderson said.
To try and combat the crime wave, the Phoenix police have created a special unit to handle the kidnappings called the Home Invasion Task Force, which has pulled more than a dozen officers off other assignments. The crimes are occurring across the valley and in all types of neighborhoods, authorities warn.
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WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
Jenn AN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS
"It won't have been covered by the Washington Post, but on Saturday, a rancher in Arizona, by the name of Robert Krentz was out checking his herd. He came across an illegal alien, who claimed to be injured. Krentz offered to help him, and contacted his brother on his cell phone, asking him to phone for an ambulance, and gave him his location. The illegal alien shot and killed Krentz, as well as his dog.
BILLIONS SQUANDERED OVER THERE IN THE WAR FOR BUSH’S BIG SAUDI OIL!
WHILE THE SAME WHORES KEEP WORKING FOR OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
REALLY! WHICH BORDER ARE YOU MOST CONCERNED OVER? THE ONE WITH IRAQ-IRAN, OR THE ONE WITH NARCOMEX ON THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR BACKYARD?
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICAN MURDERED BY ILLEGALS, AND BILLIONS PAID OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES/WELFARE TO THE SAME.
NEW YORK TIMES
February 26, 2009
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
NEW YORK TIMES
February 27, 2009
Editorial
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Robert Krentz killing stokes fears of rampant illegal immigration
Speculation that the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz is tied to illegal immigration has sparked calls for Homeland Security to send in the National Guard.
Ed Ashurst, a neighbor and friend of Robert Krentz, worked on his Bisbee, Ariz., ranch Monday. Mr. Krentz's body was found on his property near the Mexican border Saturday. The murder has stirred unease in Arizona about illegal immigration after law enforcement officials tracked footprints from the crime scene back to the border.
(Mamta Popat/AP/Arizona Daily Star)
By Daniel B. Wood, Staff writer
posted March 31, 2010 at 8:14 am EDT
Los Angeles —
The killing of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz has prompted the state’s governor, its most influential senator, and its farming community to say that Washington is not doing enough to prevent illegal immigration and secure the border with Mexico.
Mr. Krentz was found Saturday, fatally shot and slumped over in his all-terrain vehicle, which still had its lights and engine on. Law enforcement officials tracked footprints from the scene back to the border, raising speculation that the killer is an illegal immigrant.
The apparent murder heightens the tension surrounding the immigration reform debate, with advocates of much stricter immigration controls saying Krentz's death highlights the urgent need for significantly increased border security.
Already, Krentz’s death is being held up as evidence that border violence is spiraling out of control as the Obama administration mulls immigration reform that could include a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants in the United States.
“It’s scary,” says Dawn Garner, a teacher and yoga instructor whose small ranch abuts the border near Naco, Ariz., just miles from Krentz’s ranch. She says she counts “at least 12” immigrants crossing her property every day.
“It’s become Grand Central Station out here since the Obama administration began talking about comprehensive reform,” says Ms. Garner, whose daughter knows Krentz’s son. “They’re all trying to get up here quickly so they can be inside the country when amnesty – or whatever they want to call it – is announced.”
Since Saturday, Gov. Jan Brewer (D) and Sen. John McCain (R) have called on the Department of Homeland Securityto deploy the National Guard to the Arizona border. The Arizona Farm Bureau added: “Until Congress addresses securing the border, all necessary resources should be focused on Arizona's border.”
Authorities have not announced any motive for the killing, nor have they officially suggested that the killer was an illegal immigrant.
For his part, Krentz was well known in the area as a rancher who was kind to illegal immigrants he found on his property, despite having been robbed by them once. “You know, if they come in and ask for water, I'll still give them water," he told PBS's "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" in 1999. “You know, that's just my nature."
Krentz’s brother, however, had called border patrol agents the day before the killing. The agents stopped a caravan of illegal immigrants carrying 280 pounds of marijuana, raising the possibility of the crime being retaliation.
An appeal for patience
Experts caution that authorities must understand what happened before conclusions should be drawn.
“An important question to ask is whether the killing of Robert Krentz is more an aberration than the norm at the Arizona border,” says Catherine Wilson, an immigration analyst at Villanova University in Philadelphia. “Did the immigrant responsible for Krentz’s death have ties to the drug-trafficking trade? Will we be seeing more violence at the border due to the heightening of drug-related crime in northern Mexico?”
Advocates for immigrants say Krentz’s death is less an issue of illegal immigration than of the increasing lawlessness in the border areas of Mexico, which affects American citizens and immigrants alike.
“It took the life of a Caucasian rancher, an innocent soul, to garner the attention of the violence on the border,” says Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). “Countless individuals have been murdered at the border during the crossing by ... criminals and their sophisticated networks.”
“Without legal channels for entry into the US, without reform, those who control the border are violent criminals, and the victims are innocent people, including the undocumented, who are raped, injured, and killed,” she adds.
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ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.
Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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THE BELOW FIGURES ARE VERY DATES. FIGURES NOW PUT MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS AT A MILLION! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN MEX INFESTED CA ARE BY MEX GANGS!
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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"This
is country belongs to Mexico" is said by the Mexican Militant. This
is a common teaching that the U.S. is really AZTLAN, belonging to
Mexicans, which is taught to Mexican kids in Arizona and California
through a LA Raza educational program funded by American Tax Payers via
President Obama, when he gave LA RAZA $800,000.00 in March of 2009!
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IN A TIME WHEN OBAMA PREACHES
THAT NO DOLLAR SHOULD NOT BE SQUANDERED IN THE WARS OVER THERE TO PREVENT
TERRORISM, HE CAN’T PUSH OUR BORDERS OPEN WIDE ENOUGH FOR MORE ILLEGALS!
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WIKILEAKS EXPOSES OBAMA’S AGENDA OF OPEN BORDERS WITH
NARCOMEX
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2011/05/wikileaks-exposed-obamas-la-raza-open.html
*ARIZONA, UNDER LA RAZA OCCUPATION, ENDORSES ROMNEY, WHILE THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS STILL STAND BEHIND THEIR MAN OBAMA!
OBAMA HAS SUED THE AMERICAN PEOPLE OF AZ ON BEHALF OF HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS, HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY IN AZ, AND MADE BORDER SECURITY A JOKE!
NEXT TO MEXICO CITY, PHOENIX IS THE CAPITAL OF MEXICAN KIDNAPPING, HOME INVASION, CAR THEFT, AND GATEWAY FOR THE SOUTHERN INVASION OF THE MEXICAN DRUG CARTELS!
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PHOENIX THE
LA RAZA MEXICAN KIDNAPPING CAPITAL of AMERICA
Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.
Washington Too Concerned With al Qaeda Terrorists to Care,
Officials Say
By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and ASA ESLOCKER
February 11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime
wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more
incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370
cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too
obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own
backyard right now.
Wave of abductions hit Phoenix. Is Washington paying enough
attention?
"We're in the
eye of the storm," Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News of the
violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by Mexico's drug cartels that have
expanded business across the border. "If it doesn't stop here, if
we're not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across the
nation," he said.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S.
government focuses so intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of
terrorists – those involved with the same kidnappings, extortion and drug
cartels that are sweeping Phoenix – are overlooked. (LA
RAZA DEM JERRY BROWN JUST SIGNED A LAW IN HIS OWN STATE MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR
EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY! PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
FOR THEIR PAYMASTER IS A MAJOR AGENDA OF
THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, NOW PARTY FOR ILLEGALS, EXPANDED LA RAZA WELFARE STATE,
OPEN BORDERS, PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH!)
WATCH: Phoenix: Kidnapping Capital of U.S.
U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to
Blame?
"Those
[criminals], for the average Californian or the average America, may be a more
immediate threat to their well being," Brown said.
In fact, kidnappings and other crimes
connected to the Mexican drug cartels are quickly spreading across the border,
from Texas to California. The majority of the victims are either illegal aliens
or connected to the drug trade.
An ABC News'
investigation uncovered horrific cases of chopped-off hands, legs and heads
when a victim's family doesn't pay up fast enough.
"They're ruthless, so now they're ripping each other
off, but doing it in our city," Anderson said.
To try and combat the
crime wave, the Phoenix police have created a special unit to handle the
kidnappings called the Home Invasion Task Force, which has pulled more than a
dozen officers off other assignments. The crimes are occurring across the
valley and in all types of neighborhoods, authorities warn.
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“What's
needed to discourage illegal immigration into the United States has been known
for years: Enforce existing law.” ….. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
*
THERE HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000 CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS THAT
FLED BACK OVER THE BORDER TO MEXICO TO AVOID PROSECUTION.
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
Jenn AN AMERICAN SEES &
SPEAKS
It won't have been covered by the Washington Post, but on Saturday, a
rancher in Arizona, by the name of Robert Krentz was out checking his herd. He
came across an illegal alien, who claimed to be injured. Krentz offered to help
him, and contacted his brother on his cell phone, asking him to phone for an
ambulance, and gave him his location. The illegal alien shot and killed Krentz,
as well as his dog.
In that area of Arizona, near Douglas, it's been reported that since the talks of amnesty starting up again, more illegals have been heading over the border. Obama has gutted the budget for the increases in border patrol agents that were promised, and he has also gutted the funding for a border fence. Janet Napolitano claims our border is secure. The blood of Robert Krentz is on Napolitano's, Obama's, McCain's Reid's and every other amnesty proponent's hands. Krentz's wife and children have lost a husband and father.
We need to stop providing birthright citizenship to the children of illegals, we need to start deporting illegals, and construct a physical barrier at the border. This insanity has to end.
In that area of Arizona, near Douglas, it's been reported that since the talks of amnesty starting up again, more illegals have been heading over the border. Obama has gutted the budget for the increases in border patrol agents that were promised, and he has also gutted the funding for a border fence. Janet Napolitano claims our border is secure. The blood of Robert Krentz is on Napolitano's, Obama's, McCain's Reid's and every other amnesty proponent's hands. Krentz's wife and children have lost a husband and father.
We need to stop providing birthright citizenship to the children of illegals, we need to start deporting illegals, and construct a physical barrier at the border. This insanity has to end.
http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/02/arizona-gov-brewer-endorses-mitt-romney_26.html
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PAT BUCHANAN ON OBAMA’S HISPANDERING FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES:
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
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TOWNHALL.com
Whose Country Is This?
Pat Buchanan
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
With the support of 70 percent of its citizens, Arizona has ordered sheriffs and police to secure the border and remove illegal aliens, half a million of whom now reside there.
Arizona acted because the U.S. government has abdicated its constitutional duty to protect the states from invasion and refuses to enforce America's immigration laws.
"We in Arizona have been more than patient waiting for Washington to act," said Gov. Jan Brewer. "But decades of inaction and misguided policy have created an unacceptable situation."
We have a crisis in Arizona because we have a failed state in Washington.
What is the response of Barack Obama, who took an oath to see to it that federal laws are faithfully executed?
He is siding with the law-breakers. He is pandering to the ethnic lobbies. He is not berating a Mexican regime that aids and abets this invasion of the country of which he is commander in chief. Instead, he attacks the government of Arizona for trying to fill a gaping hole in law enforcement left by his own dereliction of duty.
He has denounced Arizona as "misguided." He has called on the Justice Department to ensure that Arizona's sheriffs and police do not violate anyone's civil rights. But he has said nothing about the rights of the people of Arizona who must deal with the costs of having hundreds of thousands of lawbreakers in their midst.
How's that for Andrew Jackson-style leadership?
Obama has done everything but his duty to enforce the law.
Undeniably, making it a state as well as a federal crime to be in this country illegally, and requiring police to check the immigration status of anyone they have a "reasonable suspicion" is here illegally, is tough and burdensome. But what choice did Arizona have?
The state has a fiscal crisis caused in part by the burden of providing schooling and social welfare for illegals and their families, who consume far more in services than they pay in taxes and who continue to pour in. Even John McCain is now calling for 3,000 troops on the border.
Police officers and a prominent rancher have been murdered. There have been kidnappings believed to be tied to the Mexican drug cartels. There are nightly high-speed chases through the barrios where innocent people are constantly at risk.
If Arizona does not get control of the border and stop the invasion, U.S. citizens will stop coming to Arizona and will begin to depart, as they are already fleeing California.
A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
What we are talking about here is the Balkanization and breakup of a nation into ethnic enclaves. A country that cannot control its borders isn't really a country anymore, Ronald Reagan reminded us.
The tasks that Arizonans are themselves undertaking are ones that belong by right, the Constitution and federal law to the Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Homeland Security.
Arizona has been compelled to assume the feds' role because the feds won't do their job. And for that dereliction of duty the buck stops on the desk of the president of the United States.
Why is Obama paralyzed? Why does he not enforce the law, even if he dislikes it, by punishing the businessmen who hire illegals and by sending the 12 million to 20 million illegals back home? President Eisenhower did it. Why won't he?
OBAMA THE HISPANDERING PRESIDENT SELLING OUT HIS OWN COUNTRY FOR THE ILLEGALS’ VOTES!
Because he is politically correct. Because he owes a big debt to the Hispanic lobby that helped deliver two-thirds of that vote in 2008. Though most citizens of Hispanic descent in Arizona want the border protected and the laws enforced, the Hispanic lobby demands that the law be changed.
Fair enough. But the nation rose up as one to reject the "path-to-citizenship" -- i.e., amnesty-- that the 2007 plan of George W. Bush, McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama envisioned.
Al Sharpton threatens to go to Phoenix and march in the streets against the new Arizona law. Let him go.
Let us see how many African-Americans, who are today frozen out of the 8 million jobs held by illegal aliens that might otherwise go to them or their children, will march to defend an invasion for which they are themselves paying the heaviest price.
Last year, while Americans were losing a net of 5 million jobs, the U.S. government -- Bush and Obama both -- issued 1,131,000 green cards to legal immigrants to come and take the jobs that did open up, a flood of immigrants equaled in only four other years in our history.
What are we doing to our own people?
Whose country is this, anyway?
America today has an establishment that, because it does not like the immigration laws, countenances and condones wholesale violation of those laws.
Nevertheless, under those laws, the U.S. government is obligated to deport illegal aliens and punish businesses that knowingly hire them.
This is not an option. It is an obligation.
Can anyone say Barack Obama is meeting that obligation?
*
PHOENIX THE LA RAZA MEXICAN KIDNAPPING CAPITAL of AMERICA
Kidnapping Capital of the U.S.A.
Washington Too Concerned With al Qaeda Terrorists to Care, Officials Say
By BRIAN ROSS, RICHARD ESPOSITO and ASA ESLOCKER
February 11, 2009
In what officials caution is now a dangerous and even deadly crime wave, Phoenix, Arizona has become the kidnapping capital of America, with more incidents than any other city in the world outside of Mexico City and over 370 cases last year alone. But local authorities say Washington, DC is too obsessed with al Qaeda terrorists to care about what is happening in their own backyard right now.
Wave of abductions hit Phoenix. Is Washington paying enough attention?
"We're in the eye of the storm," Phoenix Police Chief Andy Anderson told ABC News of the violent crimes and ruthless tactics spurred by Mexico's drug cartels that have expanded business across the border. "If it doesn't stop here, if we're not able to fix it here and get it turned around, it will go across the nation," he said.
California Attorney General Jerry Brown warned that as the U.S. government focuses so intently on Islamic extremist groups, other types of terrorists – those involved with the same kidnappings, extortion and drug cartels that are sweeping Phoenix – are overlooked. (LA RAZA DEM JERRY BROWN JUST SIGNED A LAW IN HIS OWN STATE MAKING IT ILLEGAL FOR EMPLOYERS TO USE E-VERIFY! PUTTING ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS TO KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED FOR THEIR PAYMASTER IS A MAJOR AGENDA OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, NOW PARTY FOR ILLEGALS, EXPANDED LA RAZA WELFARE STATE, OPEN BORDERS, PUSH 2 FOR ENGLISH!)
JUDICIAL WATCH: Kidnapping Capital of U.S.
U.S. Guns Arming Mexican Drug Gangs; Second Amendment to Blame?
"Those [criminals], for the average Californian or the average America, may be a more immediate threat to their well being," Brown said.
In fact, kidnappings and other crimes connected to the Mexican drug cartels are quickly spreading across the border, from Texas to California. The majority of the victims are either illegal aliens or connected to the drug trade.
An ABC News' investigation uncovered horrific cases of chopped-off hands, legs and heads when a victim's family doesn't pay up fast enough.
"They're ruthless, so now they're ripping each other off, but doing it in our city," Anderson said.
To try and combat the crime wave, the Phoenix police have created a special unit to handle the kidnappings called the Home Invasion Task Force, which has pulled more than a dozen officers off other assignments. The crimes are occurring across the valley and in all types of neighborhoods, authorities warn.
*
THERE
HAVE BEEN MORE THAN 2,000 CALIFORNIANS MURDERED BY ILLEGALS THAT FLED BACK OVER
THE BORDER TO MEXICO TO AVOID PROSECUTION.
WHERE’S THE OUTRAGE?
Jenn AN AMERICAN SEES & SPEAKS
"It won't have been covered by the Washington Post, but on Saturday, a rancher in Arizona, by the name of Robert Krentz was out checking his herd. He came across an illegal alien, who claimed to be injured. Krentz offered to help him, and contacted his brother on his cell phone, asking him to phone for an ambulance, and gave him his location. The illegal alien shot and killed Krentz, as well as his dog.
In that area of Arizona, near Douglas, it's been
reported that since the talks of amnesty starting up again, more illegals have
been heading over the border. Obama has gutted the budget for the increases in
border patrol agents that were promised, and he has also gutted the funding for
a border fence. Janet Napolitano claims our border is secure. The blood of
Robert Krentz is on Napolitano's, Obama's, McCain's Reid's and every other
amnesty proponent's hands. Krentz's wife and children have lost a husband and
father.
We need to stop providing birthright citizenship
to the children of illegals, we need to start deporting illegals, and construct
a physical barrier at the border. This insanity has
to end."
THE
"INSANITY" IS ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED WITH HORDES OF HEAVY
BREEDING ILLEGALS!
*
THE OBAMA NAPOLITANO “HOMELAND
SECURITY” IS NOW THE DEPARTMENT of“HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIP”.BILLIONS SQUANDERED OVER THERE IN THE WAR FOR BUSH’S BIG SAUDI OIL!
WHILE THE SAME WHORES KEEP WORKING FOR OPEN BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX.
REALLY! WHICH BORDER ARE YOU MOST CONCERNED OVER? THE ONE WITH IRAQ-IRAN, OR THE ONE WITH NARCOMEX ON THE OTHER SIDE OF YOUR BACKYARD?
EVERY DAY THERE ARE 12 AMERICAN MURDERED BY ILLEGALS, AND BILLIONS PAID OUT IN SOCIAL SERVICES/WELFARE TO THE SAME.
NEW YORK TIMES
February 26, 2009
U.S. Is
Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
PHOENIX — The Mexican
agents who moved in on a safe house full of drug dealers last May were not
prepared for the fire power that greeted them.
When the shooting was
over, eight agents were dead. Among the guns the police recovered was an
assault rifle traced back across the border to a dingy gun store here called
X-Caliber Guns.
Now, the owner, George
Iknadosian, will go on trial on charges he sold hundreds of weapons, mostly
AK-47 rifles, to smugglers, knowing they would send them to a drug cartel in the western state
of Sinaloa. The guns helped fuel the gang warfare in which more than 6,000
Mexicans died last year.
Mexican authorities
have long complained that American gun dealers are arming the cartels. This
case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the
United States promised Mexico two years ago it would clamp down on the smuggling of
weapons across the border. It also offers a rare glimpse of how weapons
delivered to American gun dealers are being moved into Mexico and wielded in
horrific crimes.
“We had a direct
pipeline from Iknadosian to the Sinaloa cartel,”said Thomas G. Mangan, a
spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix.
Drug gangs seek out
guns in the United States because the gun-control laws are far tougher in
Mexico. Mexican civilians must get approval from the military to buy guns and
they cannot own large-caliber rifles or high-powered pistols, which are
considered military weapons.
The ease with which Mr.
Iknadosian and two other men transported weapons to Mexico over a two-year
period illustrates just how difficult it is to stop the illicit trade, law
enforcement officials here say.
The gun laws in the
United States allow the sale of multiple military-style rifles to American
citizens without reporting the sales to the government, and the Mexicans search
relatively few cars and trucks going south across their border.
What is more, the sheer
volume of licensed dealers — more than 6,600 along the border alone, many of them
operating out of their houses —makes policing them a tall order. Currently the
A.T.F. has about 200 agents assigned to the task.
Smugglers routinely
enlist Americans with clean criminal records to buy two or three rifles at a
time, often from different shops, then transport them across the border in cars
and trucks, often secreting them in door panels or under the hood, law enforcement
officials here say. Some of the smuggled weapons are also bought from private
individuals at gun shows, and the law requires no notification of the
authorities in those cases.
“We can move against
the most outrageous purveyors of arms to Mexico, but the characteristic of the
arms trade is it’s a ‘parade of ants’ —it’s not any one big dealer, it’s lots
of individuals,” said Arizona’s attorney general, Terry Goddard, who is
prosecuting Mr. Iknadosian. “That makes it very hard to detect because it’s often
below the radar.”
The Mexican government
began to clamp down on drug cartels in late 2006, unleashing a war that daily
deposits dozens of bodies — often gruesomely tortured — on Mexico’s streets.
President Felipe
Calderón has characterized the stream of
smuggled weapons as one of the most significant threats to security in his
country. The Mexican authorities say they seized 20,000 weapons from drug gangs
in 2008, the majority bought in the United States.
The authorities in the
United States say they do not know how many firearms are transported across the
border each year, in part because the federal government does not track gun
sales and traces only weapons used in crimes. But A.T.F. officials estimate 90
percent of the weapons recovered in Mexico come from dealers north of the
border.
In 2007, the firearms
agency traced 2,400 weapons seized in Mexico back to dealers in the United
States, and 1,800 of those came from dealers operating in the four states along
the border, with Texas first, followed by California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Mr. Iknadosian is
accused of being one of those dealers. So brazen was his operation that the
smugglers paid him in advance for the guns and the straw buyers merely filled
out the required paperwork and carried the weapons off, according to A.T.F.
investigative reports. The agency said Mr. Iknadosian also sold several guns to
undercover agents who had explicitly informed him that they intended to resell
them in Mexico.
Mr. Iknadosian, 47,
will face trial on March 3 on charges including fraud, conspiracy and assisting
a criminal syndicate. His lawyer, Thomas M. Baker, declined to comment on the
charges, but said Mr. Iknadosian maintained his innocence. No one answered the
telephone at Mr. Iknadosian’s home in Glendale, Ariz.
A native of Egypt who
spent much of his life in California, Mr. Iknadosian moved his gun-selling
operation to Arizona in 2004, because the gun laws were more lenient,
prosecutors said.
Over the two years
leading up to his arrest last May, he sold more than 700 weapons of the kind
currently sought by drug dealers in Mexico, including 515 AK-47 rifles and one
.50 caliber rifle that can penetrate an engine block or bulletproof glass, the
A.T.F. said.
Based on the store’s
records and the statements of some defendants, investigators estimate at least
600 of those weapons were smuggled to Mexico. So far, the Mexican authorities
have seized seven of the Kalashnikov-style rifles from gunmen for the Beltrán
Leyva cartel who had battled with the police.
The store was also said
to be the source for a Colt .38-caliber pistol stuck in the belt of a reputed
drug kingpin, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, when he was arrested a year ago in the
Sinaloan town of Culiacán. Also linked to the store was a diamond-studded
handgun carried by another reputed mobster, Hugo David Castro, known as El
Once, who was arrested in November on charges he took part in killing a state
police chief in Sonora.
According to reports by
A.T.F. investigators, Mr. Iknadosian sold more than 60 assault rifles in late
2007 and early 2008 to straw buyers working for two brothers — Hugo Miguel Gamez,
26, and Cesar Bojorguez Gamez, 27 — who then smuggled them into Mexico.
The brothers instructed
the buyers to show up at X-Caliber Guns and to tell Mr. Iknadosian they were
there to pick up guns for “Cesar” or “C,”the A.T.F. said. Mr. Iknadosian then
helped the buyers fill out the required federal form, called the F.B.I. to check
their records and handed over the rifles. The straw buyers would then meet one
of the brothers to deliver the merchandise. They were paid $100 a gun.
The Gamez brothers have
pleaded guilty to a count of attempted fraud. Seven of the buyers arrested last
May have pleaded guilty to lesser charges and have agreed to testify against
Mr. Iknadosian, prosecutors said.
In one transaction, Mr.
Iknadosian gave advice about how to buy weapons and smuggle them to a person
who turned out to be an informant who was recording him, according to a
transcript. He told the informant to break the sales up into batches and never
to carry more than two weapons in a car.
“If you got pulled
over, two is no biggie,” Mr. Iknadosian is quoted as saying in the transcript.
“Four is a question. Fifteen is, ‘What are you doing?’ ”
NEW YORK TIMES
February 27, 2009
Editorial
The
Drug Cartels’ Right to Bear Arms
The hypocrisy grows
all too gruesome: The Justice Department pronounced the Mexican drug cartels “a
national security threat” this week, even as American gun dealers along the
border were busily arming the cartels’murderous gangs. Mexico complains that American dealers supplied most of
the 20,000 weapons seized last year in drug wars in which 6,000 Mexicans died.
A vast arms bazaar is
rampant along the four border states, enabled by porous to nonexistent American
gun laws. Straw buyers can pick up three or four high-powered war rifles from
one of more than 6,600 border dealers and hand them off to smugglers. They
easily return to Mexico, where gun laws are far less permissive.
Licensed dealers
routinely recruit buyers with clean criminal records to foil weak laws and feed
the deadly pipeline, according to a report by James C. McKinley Jr. in The
Times. The countless unlicensed “gun enthusiasts” free to deal battlefield
rifles at weekend shows, thanks to loophole-ridden laws, are a second source.
The federal government
is allowed to only trace weapons used in crimes and has no idea of the full
scope of the border trade, which accounts for 9 out of 10 recovered weapons.
One dealer exploited
the lack of federal controls by packing up his California shop, where laws were
tougher, and moving to the lenient Arizona border. He is accused of selling
hundreds of AK-47 rifles to the cartels before he was finally arrested in a
sting by undercover agents. He’s more the exception. At best, 200 agents work
the border expanse where gun smugglers operate as a “parade of ants,” in the
words of one frustrated prosecutor.
There should be
enormous shame on this side of the border that America’s addiction to drugs is
bolstered by its feckless gun controls. Firm federal law is urgently needed if
the homicidal cartels are to be seriously challenged as a threat to national
security.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
Robert Krentz killing stokes fears of rampant illegal immigration
Speculation that the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz is tied to illegal immigration has sparked calls for Homeland Security to send in the National Guard.
Ed Ashurst, a neighbor and friend of Robert Krentz, worked on his Bisbee, Ariz., ranch Monday. Mr. Krentz's body was found on his property near the Mexican border Saturday. The murder has stirred unease in Arizona about illegal immigration after law enforcement officials tracked footprints from the crime scene back to the border.
(Mamta Popat/AP/Arizona Daily Star)
By Daniel B. Wood, Staff writer
posted March 31, 2010 at 8:14 am EDT
Los Angeles —
The killing of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz has prompted the state’s governor, its most influential senator, and its farming community to say that Washington is not doing enough to prevent illegal immigration and secure the border with Mexico.
Mr. Krentz was found Saturday, fatally shot and slumped over in his all-terrain vehicle, which still had its lights and engine on. Law enforcement officials tracked footprints from the scene back to the border, raising speculation that the killer is an illegal immigrant.
The apparent murder heightens the tension surrounding the immigration reform debate, with advocates of much stricter immigration controls saying Krentz's death highlights the urgent need for significantly increased border security.
Already, Krentz’s death is being held up as evidence that border violence is spiraling out of control as the Obama administration mulls immigration reform that could include a path to citizenship for some illegal immigrants in the United States.
“It’s scary,” says Dawn Garner, a teacher and yoga instructor whose small ranch abuts the border near Naco, Ariz., just miles from Krentz’s ranch. She says she counts “at least 12” immigrants crossing her property every day.
“It’s become Grand Central Station out here since the Obama administration began talking about comprehensive reform,” says Ms. Garner, whose daughter knows Krentz’s son. “They’re all trying to get up here quickly so they can be inside the country when amnesty – or whatever they want to call it – is announced.”
Since Saturday, Gov. Jan Brewer (D) and Sen. John McCain (R) have called on the Department of Homeland Securityto deploy the National Guard to the Arizona border. The Arizona Farm Bureau added: “Until Congress addresses securing the border, all necessary resources should be focused on Arizona's border.”
Authorities have not announced any motive for the killing, nor have they officially suggested that the killer was an illegal immigrant.
For his part, Krentz was well known in the area as a rancher who was kind to illegal immigrants he found on his property, despite having been robbed by them once. “You know, if they come in and ask for water, I'll still give them water," he told PBS's "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" in 1999. “You know, that's just my nature."
Krentz’s brother, however, had called border patrol agents the day before the killing. The agents stopped a caravan of illegal immigrants carrying 280 pounds of marijuana, raising the possibility of the crime being retaliation.
An appeal for patience
Experts caution that authorities must understand what happened before conclusions should be drawn.
“An important question to ask is whether the killing of Robert Krentz is more an aberration than the norm at the Arizona border,” says Catherine Wilson, an immigration analyst at Villanova University in Philadelphia. “Did the immigrant responsible for Krentz’s death have ties to the drug-trafficking trade? Will we be seeing more violence at the border due to the heightening of drug-related crime in northern Mexico?”
Advocates for immigrants say Krentz’s death is less an issue of illegal immigration than of the increasing lawlessness in the border areas of Mexico, which affects American citizens and immigrants alike.
“It took the life of a Caucasian rancher, an innocent soul, to garner the attention of the violence on the border,” says Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA). “Countless individuals have been murdered at the border during the crossing by ... criminals and their sophisticated networks.”
“Without legal channels for entry into the US, without reform, those who control the border are violent criminals, and the victims are innocent people, including the undocumented, who are raped, injured, and killed,” she adds.
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ACCORDING TO SENATOR LAMAR SMITH OF TEXAS, WHEN CHALLENGING SO- CALLED “HOMELAND SECURITY = PATHWAY TO CITIZENSHIPS” LA RAZA JANET NAPOLITANO, AS TO WHY OUR BORDERS ARE WIDE OPEN TO NARCOMEX, OBAMA HAS CUT ENFORCEMENT BY MORE THAN 60% IN ALL AREAS.
Obama soft on illegals enforcement
Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.
The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.
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THE BELOW FIGURES ARE VERY DATES. FIGURES NOW PUT MEXICAN GANG MEMBERS AT A MILLION! ACCORDING TO CA ATTORNEY GENERAL KAMALA HARRIS, NEARLY HALF THE MURDERS IN MEX INFESTED CA ARE BY MEX GANGS!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
And there are some 800,000 gang members in this country: That’s more than the combined number of troops in our Army and Marine Corps. These gangs have become one of the principle ways to import and distribute drugs in the United States. Congressman David Reichert joins Lou to tell us why those gangs are growing larger and stronger, and why he’s introduced legislation to eliminate the top three international drug gangs.
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THE F.B.I. REPORTS THAT THE MEX DRUG
CARTELS OPERATE FROM 2,500 AMERICAN CITIES.
COMPTON GANG MURDERS ...it’s now happening
all over the country!
"There are over 100-plus active
violent gangs in Los Angeles County, and you have 100 holes in the dike and the
problem is you only have so many plugs. If you pull one plug in an area where
you've plugged up the violence, will it pour out there again?"
By
Megan Garvey Times Staff Writer
December
12, 2005
COMPTON GANG MURDERS ...it’s now happening
all over the country! Gang-related homicides are up more than 30% this year
in areas under the jurisdiction of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department,
but the department's countywide gang enforcement team is substantially smaller
than it was three years ago and remains chronically understaffed. For many
years the department dealt with significantly less gang crime than police in
the city of Los Angeles. No more. At least half of the homicides in sheriff's
territories are now gang killings, about the same level as in the city.
Statewide, gang violence accounts for about 16% of all homicides. This year,
while gang homicides rose sharply in a few small areas patrolled by the sheriff
— Compton, East Los Angeles and unincorporated neighborhoods bordering Watts —
Operation Safe Streets, the department's anti-gang unit, lacked flexibility to
move specially trained personnel out of lower-crime areas and into communities
with soaring gang killings, according to its head of operations. In an interview Friday, Baca seemed
surprised that gang homicides were up substantially — 210 as of late last week,
compared with 164 for the same period last year — but said he needs more
personnel to deal with gang crime."We are doing our best with what we
have and we don't have enough," he said. "If you doubled what we
have, we don't have enough."Baca is promoting a quarter-cent sales tax
earmarked for gang intervention and enforcement, which he hopes to get on the
ballot next year. Such a tax would generate about $280 million annually for law
enforcement agencies in L.A. County, he said. For the time being, Baca said,
shifting resources is not the answer because it might suppress crime in one
area at the cost of allowing it to increase elsewhere."What one has to
understand is the nature of policing gangs," Baca said. "There are over 100-plus active
violent gangs in Los Angeles County, and you have 100 holes in the dike and the
problem is you only have so many plugs. If you pull one plug in an area where
you've plugged up the violence, will it pour out there again?"The
department's difficulties responding to the increased rate of killing
underscore two of the biggest problems the Sheriff's Department faces: It is
seriously understaffed, with nearly 1,000 fewer deputies overall than the 9,500
authorized, and its political structure works against assigning available
deputies based on the worst crime problems.The Sheriff's Department patrols
unincorporated areas of the county and 41 cities that contract with the
department for policing. Cities pay for a specific number of deputies each year
and, if they can afford it, may add personnel and specialized teams as needed.
Baca said about 55% of his deputies work under city contracts. The gang unit is one of several specialized
teams that work countywide for all residents, allowing the sheriff discretion —
in theory, at least — in their deployment. But because the department serves an
area with 2.6 million residents over 4,000 square miles, distribution of
limited resources is challenging. Capt. Mike Ford, who runs Operation Safe
Streets and is Rifkin's boss, noted that although other areas have fewer
homicides than Compton, gang crime is quite real to people who live in those
areas."The reality is we work for the people who live there, and no one
likes to deal with graffiti or drug dealing," he said, adding that he
would be reluctant to withdraw officers from other areas, even if that were
politically possible. But some gang crime experts warn that the department's
approach to distributing its deputies could allow crime to spread."If 50%
or more of your murders are gang-related, it looks to me like you ought to have
a lot of resources doing that," said Wes McBride, president of the Assn.
of California Gang Investigators
WHEN THESE GUYS COME OUT OF COMPTON ----
WHEN THEY DO THEIR RAPE, ROB, AND PILLAGE IN THE REST OF THE COUNTY BECAUSE
THEY’VE MAXIMIZED WHAT THEY CAN GET IN COMPTON ---- THEY’RE GOING TO COME TO
OTHER CITIES.
"When
these guys come out of Compton — when they do their rape, rob and pillage in
the rest of the county because they've maximized what they can get in Compton —
they're going to come to other cities," said McBride, who headed Operation
Safe Streets before retiring in 2002. Sheriff's officials count a crime as
gang-related only if it is directly tied to gang activity. If the wife of a
gang member is killed by her husband in a domestic dispute, for example, it is
not counted as a gang crime. If she is killed to stop her from telling
authorities about the gang, it is.The rise in gang violence in Compton, as well
as in East Los Angeles and areas bordering southeast Los Angeles, has pushed up
overall homicides for the Sheriff's Department. With three weeks remaining in
2005, homicides of all types in county areas and in cities that contract with
the Sheriff's Department total 395, passing last year's 392.By contrast,
although the city of Los Angeles continues to record more homicides than the
county, its total has fallen and is on track to be at its lowest in half a
dozen years. As of the end of October, the LAPD reported a 15% decline in gang
homicides over the same period last year, 216 compared with 255.Ford said gang
suppression and investigation remain top priorities for the department.
"The question," he said, "is how many resources do you
have?"Through late last week, Compton had 68 gang-related homicides, up
from 42 for all of last year. The nearby territory bordering southeast Los
Angeles, patrolled by the Century sheriff's station, had 57 gang-related
homicides, up from 37 in 2004.Together, the two areas account for nearly 60% of
the county's gang-related homicides, Sheriff's Department statistics show. Yet
about a quarter of available gang investigators are assigned to those areas. In
addition, each shares a gang suppression team with a neighboring station, a
move made last year by Ford when, he said, insufficient staff made regional
teams necessary. Ten gang suppression deputies and a sergeant are assigned to
the Compton-Carson area, where there have been 72 gang homicides this year.
Another team of 11 serves Century and Lennox stations, which account for 70
gang killings. In comparison, the Palmdale and Lancaster area also has a team
of 11 gang suppression officers, two paid under Lancaster's contract. That area
has had 13 gang-related homicides this year. The sheriff made no move to shift
gang officers to Compton when violence shot upward there early this year. At
Century station, where a specific gang war was identified, a task force was
formed, but the gang unit was not expanded. Another problem area has been East
Los Angeles, which has had 20 gang-related homicides this year, up from 11 for
each of the previous two years. In that area, too, the number of gang
enforcement personnel has not been increased. The need for a larger gang
enforcement team is widely acknowledged. McBride, who spent nearly three
decades as a gang specialist in the Sheriff's Department, estimated that
Compton's gang problem alone would justify 50 gang suppression officers and a
team of 10 to 15 investigators. Ford and other gang experts caution that simply
moving deputies to a hot spot might not have much impact. Effective gang
officers, they note, develop sources on the street over time. Compton's level
of gang activity, for instance, complicates law enforcement efforts to get
intelligence and also makes it harder to target any one area to significantly
reduce criminal activity, sheriff's officials said. The city, which covers 10
square miles and has about 96,000 residents, has at least 10 active and violent
street gangs, as well as numerous other crews, said Percy Perrodin, the city's
former deputy police chief and brother of Mayor Eric Perrodin."You're
talking about a very complex gang situation," said Cheryl Maxson, a UC
Irvine professor who studies street gangs. By mid-2005, Compton had as many
homicides as all of 2004, but city officials said there were no additional
funds to add to the 72 deputies who patrol the city."People need to
realize that Compton's problems won't stay in Compton. Absolutely, they ought
to be concerned about what's happening, and they ought to help," he said.
"We give foreign aid to other countries so they won't fall apart. How
about some domestic aid?" COMPTON’S PROBLEMS WON’T STAY IN COMPTON.... NO,
THEY’RE ALL OVER THE 50 STATES NOW
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Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, February 11, 2008
In California, League of United Latin American Citizens has
adopted a resolution to declare "California Del Norte" a sanctuary
zone for immigrants. The declaration urges the Mexican government to invoke its
rights under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo "to seek third nation neutral
arbitration of ....disputes concerning immigration laws and their
enforcement." We’ll have the story.
Lou Dobbs Tonight Wednesday
March 5, 2008
Immigration experts are appearing on Capitol Hill today to
release the results of a study showing the cost of illegal immigration on the
criminal justices system in the 24 U.S. counties bordering Mexico–more $1
billion in less than a decade.
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IN 2012 OBAMA PLACE 2,500 TROOPS IN AUSTRALIA! YES, AUSTRALIA AND THEN REMOVED MORE TROOPS OFF THE OPEN & UNDEFENDED NARCOMEX BORDER!
KEEPING THE BORDERS OPEN IS ONE WAY OBAMA BUYS THE
ILLEGALS’ VOTES. THE OTHER IS TO SABOTAGE E-VERIFY TO ASSURE ILLEGALS A CLEAR PATHWAY
TO OUR JOBS AND VOTING BOOTHS!
Lou Dobbs Tonight
Monday, September 28, 2009
And T.J. BONNER, president of the National Border Patrol Council, will weigh in on the federal government’s decision to pull nearly 400 agents from the U.S.-Mexican border. As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and to get your thoughts on where America is headed.
FAIRUS.org
The Administration's Phantom Immigration Enforcement Policy
According to
DHS’s own reports, very little of our nation’s borders (Southwestern or
otherwise) are secure, and gaining control is not even a goal of the
department.
By Ira Mehlman
Published on 12/07/2009
Townhall.com
The setting was not quite the flight deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln with a “Mission Accomplished” banner as the backdrop, but it was the next best thing. Speaking at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Nov. 13, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano declared victory over illegal immigration and announced that the Obama administration is ready to move forward with a mass amnesty for the millions of illegal aliens already living in the United States
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NEW YORK TIMES
February 26, 2009
U.S. Is
Arms Bazaar for Mexican Cartels
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
PHOENIX — The Mexican
agents who moved in on a safe house full of drug dealers last May were not
prepared for the fire power that greeted them.
When the shooting was
over, eight agents were dead. Among the guns the police recovered was an
assault rifle traced back across the border to a dingy gun store here called
X-Caliber Guns.
Now, the owner, George
Iknadosian, will go on trial on charges he sold hundreds of weapons, mostly
AK-47 rifles, to smugglers, knowing they would send them to a drug cartel in the western state
of Sinaloa. The guns helped fuel the gang warfare in which more than 6,000
Mexicans died last year.
Mexican authorities
have long complained that American gun dealers are arming the cartels. This
case is the most prominent prosecution of an American gun dealer since the
United States promised Mexico two years ago it would clamp down on the smuggling of
weapons across the border. It also offers a rare glimpse of how weapons
delivered to American gun dealers are being moved into Mexico and wielded in
horrific crimes.
“We had a direct
pipeline from Iknadosian to the Sinaloa cartel,”said Thomas G. Mangan, a
spokesman for the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Phoenix.
Drug gangs seek out
guns in the United States because the gun-control laws are far tougher in
Mexico. Mexican civilians must get approval from the military to buy guns and
they cannot own large-caliber rifles or high-powered pistols, which are
considered military weapons.
The ease with which Mr.
Iknadosian and two other men transported weapons to Mexico over a two-year
period illustrates just how difficult it is to stop the illicit trade, law
enforcement officials here say.
The gun laws in the
United States allow the sale of multiple military-style rifles to American
citizens without reporting the sales to the government, and the Mexicans search
relatively few cars and trucks going south across their border.
What is more, the sheer
volume of licensed dealers — more than 6,600 along the border alone, many of
them operating out of their houses —makes policing them a tall order. Currently
the A.T.F. has about 200 agents assigned to the task.
Smugglers routinely
enlist Americans with clean criminal records to buy two or three rifles at a
time, often from different shops, then transport them across the border in cars
and trucks, often secreting them in door panels or under the hood, law
enforcement officials here say. Some of the smuggled weapons are also bought
from private individuals at gun shows, and the law requires no notification of
the authorities in those cases.
“We can move against
the most outrageous purveyors of arms to Mexico, but the characteristic of the
arms trade is it’s a ‘parade of ants’ —it’s not any one big dealer, it’s lots
of individuals,” said Arizona’s attorney general, Terry Goddard, who is
prosecuting Mr. Iknadosian. “That makes it very hard to detect because it’s
often below the radar.”
The Mexican government
began to clamp down on drug cartels in late 2006, unleashing a war that daily
deposits dozens of bodies — often gruesomely tortured — on Mexico’s streets.
President Felipe
Calderón has characterized the stream of
smuggled weapons as one of the most significant threats to security in his
country. The Mexican authorities say they seized 20,000 weapons from drug gangs
in 2008, the majority bought in the United States.
The authorities in the
United States say they do not know how many firearms are transported across the
border each year, in part because the federal government does not track gun
sales and traces only weapons used in crimes. But A.T.F. officials estimate 90
percent of the weapons recovered in Mexico come from dealers north of the
border.
In 2007, the firearms
agency traced 2,400 weapons seized in Mexico back to dealers in the United
States, and 1,800 of those came from dealers operating in the four states along
the border, with Texas first, followed by California, Arizona and New Mexico.
Mr. Iknadosian is
accused of being one of those dealers. So brazen was his operation that the
smugglers paid him in advance for the guns and the straw buyers merely filled
out the required paperwork and carried the weapons off, according to A.T.F.
investigative reports. The agency said Mr. Iknadosian also sold several guns to
undercover agents who had explicitly informed him that they intended to resell
them in Mexico.
Mr. Iknadosian, 47,
will face trial on March 3 on charges including fraud, conspiracy and assisting
a criminal syndicate. His lawyer, Thomas M. Baker, declined to comment on the
charges, but said Mr. Iknadosian maintained his innocence. No one answered the
telephone at Mr. Iknadosian’s home in Glendale, Ariz.
A native of Egypt who
spent much of his life in California, Mr. Iknadosian moved his gun-selling
operation to Arizona in 2004, because the gun laws were more lenient,
prosecutors said.
Over the two years
leading up to his arrest last May, he sold more than 700 weapons of the kind
currently sought by drug dealers in Mexico, including 515 AK-47 rifles and one
.50 caliber rifle that can penetrate an engine block or bulletproof glass, the
A.T.F. said.
Based on the store’s
records and the statements of some defendants, investigators estimate at least
600 of those weapons were smuggled to Mexico. So far, the Mexican authorities
have seized seven of the Kalashnikov-style rifles from gunmen for the Beltrán
Leyva cartel who had battled with the police.
The store was also said
to be the source for a Colt .38-caliber pistol stuck in the belt of a reputed
drug kingpin, Alfredo Beltrán Leyva, when he was arrested a year ago in the
Sinaloan town of Culiacán. Also linked to the store was a diamond-studded
handgun carried by another reputed mobster, Hugo David Castro, known as El
Once, who was arrested in November on charges he took part in killing a state
police chief in Sonora.
According to reports by
A.T.F. investigators, Mr. Iknadosian sold more than 60 assault rifles in late
2007 and early 2008 to straw buyers working for two brothers — Hugo Miguel
Gamez, 26, and Cesar Bojorguez Gamez, 27 — who then smuggled them into Mexico.
The brothers instructed
the buyers to show up at X-Caliber Guns and to tell Mr. Iknadosian they were
there to pick up guns for “Cesar” or “C,”the A.T.F. said. Mr. Iknadosian then
helped the buyers fill out the required federal form, called the F.B.I. to check
their records and handed over the rifles. The straw buyers would then meet one
of the brothers to deliver the merchandise. They were paid $100 a gun.
The Gamez brothers have
pleaded guilty to a count of attempted fraud. Seven of the buyers arrested last
May have pleaded guilty to lesser charges and have agreed to testify against
Mr. Iknadosian, prosecutors said.
In one transaction, Mr.
Iknadosian gave advice about how to buy weapons and smuggle them to a person
who turned out to be an informant who was recording him, according to a
transcript. He told the informant to break the sales up into batches and never
to carry more than two weapons in a car.
“If you got pulled
over, two is no biggie,” Mr. Iknadosian is quoted as saying in the transcript.
“Four is a question. Fifteen is, ‘What are you doing?’ ”
*
FAIRUS.org
“However, Arizona State
Senator Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), the bill’s sponsor, counters that law-abiding
immigrants are not his target, “It’s the drug cartels, gang members.”’
*
“Rep. John Kavanagh
(R-Fountain Hills), a co-sponsor of the bill, stated, “Illegal immigration
brings crime, kidnapping, drugs – drains our government services. Nobody
can stand on the sidelines and not take part in this battle.”
*
Arizona Bill Cracks
Down on Illegal Immigration
Frustrated
with the federal government’s failure to secure the border and combat illegal
immigration, Arizona lawmakers passed one of the toughest immigration
enforcement laws in the nation last week. Entitled the “Support Our Law
Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act,” SB 1070 passed the Arizona House on a
35-21 party-line vote last Tuesday after clearing the Senate in February. (FOX News, April 14,
2010). Governor Jan Brewer, who has argued for stringent
immigration laws, is expected to sign the bill into law. (The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2010).
SB
1070 gives Arizona law enforcement important tools to help fight illegal
immigration. During lawful contact between an officer and an individual, the
bill directs state and local officers to inquire into the immigration status of
anyone who they reasonably suspect is in the country illegally. Under
current law, officers can only inquire about someone’s immigration status if
the person is suspected of another crime. (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2010).
Additionally, foreign nationals who fail to comply with federal laws that
require them to carry proof of legal residency will be guilty of a state
misdemeanor. (The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2010).
Arizona is the first state to make it a crime not to carry such
documents. The bill also:
- Allows law enforcement
officers to arrest aliens unable to provide documents showing they’re
legally in the U.S.
- Prohibits local police
agencies from adopting “sanctuary” policies that prevent law enforcement
officers from checking the immigration status of people they stop or
arrest.
- Makes it unlawful for a
day laborer to solicit work in a public place.
- Prohibits would-be
employers from blocking traffic when hiring laborers.
- Allows citizens to sue
police agencies who do not comply with the law and government agencies
that adopt policies that hinder the enforcement of immigration laws.
- Make it illegal for
people to transport illegal aliens if the driver knows or recklessly disregards
that the passengers are here illegally.
Amnesty
forces are enraged by the new law, which they claim is fueled by
“anti-immigrant hysteria.” (AZFamily
News, April 13, 2010). Some went even further in their criticism,
relying on hollow cries of racism to attack the enforcement measure.
Chris Newman, legal director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network,
said, “Arizona has long been a laboratory for anti-immigrant experimentation,
and its demagogue leaders have become folk heroes for white supremacists
throughout the United States.” (The Associated Press, April 14, 2010).
However, Arizona State
Senator Russell Pearce (R-Mesa), the bill’s sponsor, counters that law-abiding
immigrants are not his target, “It’s the drug cartels, gang members.” Id. Arizona
is directly in the crossfire of the violent drug wars waging in Mexico and the
state is the most popular point of entry for illegal aliens who come into the
United States. (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2010). Rep. John Kavanagh (R-Fountain Hills), a
co-sponsor of the bill, stated, “Illegal immigration brings crime, kidnapping,
drugs – drains our government services. Nobody can stand on the sidelines
and not take part in this battle.” Id. Kavanagh said the
legislation “gives our local police officers the tools they need to combat
illegal immigration, while protecting the civil rights of citizens and legal
residents.” (The Wall Street Journal, April 14, 2010). The legislation is especially
timely in light of the escalating violence along Arizona’s border with Mexico
and the recent gunning down of a rancher and his dog by a suspected illegal
alien.
(See FAIR’s Legislative Update, April 12, 2010; Legislative Update, April 5, 2010).
Perhaps
the most outrageous claim amnesty advocates have made about SB 1070 is that it
“mandates racial profiling of Latinos.” (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2010).
Pearce, a former cop known as a true immigration reformer, has heard this
accusation before, and explains that the bill explicitly states officers “may
not solely consider race, color or national origin” in forming a reasonable
suspicion. (Arizona SB 1070). “You have to have
lawful contact, reason to believe, and then can only arrest based on probable
cause,” says Pearce. (AZFamily
News, April 13, 2010). The bill simply “takes the handcuffs off
of law enforcement and lets them do their job.” (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2010).
Police agencies are split over the bill; the Arizona Association of Chiefs of
Police – made up of police chiefs who are politically appointed – is against
it, while police unions support it. (KPHO Phoenix,
April 15, 2010). Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
Arpaio, known for his aggressive enforcement of immigration laws, supports it,
“Anybody we come across that is here illegally, pursuant to this new law
especially, they’re going to jail.” Id.
The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups have already pledged to
sue to block the bill from taking effect if Governor Brewer signs it into
law. (Los Angeles Times, April 13, 2010).
According to these special interest groups, only the federal government has the
authority to enforce immigration laws. Id. But these
arguments ignore the fact that other state laws (with which FAIR and its legal
affiliate IRLI have assisted), including Arizona’s 2008 law mandating the use
of E-Verify, have withstood legal scrutiny. Through
the enactment of this legislation, Arizona lawmakers are sending a clear
message that they will not wait any longer for the federal government to take
action. Speaker of the Arizona House Kirk Adams observed, “This is
not a comprehensive solution. That’s not going to occur until the federal
government takes up its responsibility to protect Arizona. But that
doesn’t mean we should wait until then.” (The New York Times, April 14, 2010).
*
TWELVE AMERICANS MURDERED EACH DAY
BY ILLEGALS
By Joseph Farah
2006 WorldNetDaily.com
WASHINGTON – While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said
to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have
no idea more of their fellow citizens – men, women and children – were murdered
this year by illegal aliens than the combined death toll of U.S. troops in Iraq
and Afghanistan since those military campaigns began. Though no federal
statistics are kept on murders or any other crimes committed by illegal aliens,
a number of groups have produced estimates based on data collected from
prisons, news reports and independent research. Twelve Americans are
murdered every day by illegal aliens, according to statistics released by Rep.
Steve King, R-Iowa. If those numbers are correct, it translates to 4,380
Americans murdered annually by illegal aliens. That's 21,900 since
Sept. 11, 2001. Total U.S. troop deaths in Iraq as of last week were reported
at 2,863. Total U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan
during the five years of the Afghan campaign are currently at 289, according to
the Department of Defense. But the carnage wrought by illegal alien murderers
represents only a fraction of the pool of blood spilled by American citizens as
a result of an open border and un-enforced immigration laws. While King reports
12 Americans are murdered daily by illegal aliens, he says 13 are killed by
drunk illegal alien drivers – for another annual death toll of 4,745. That's
23,725 since Sept. 11, 2001. While no one – in or out of government – tracks
all U.S. accidents caused by illegal aliens, the statistical and anecdotal
evidence suggests many of last year's 42,636 road deaths involved illegal
aliens. A report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Study found 20 percent of
fatal accidents involve at least one driver who lacks a valid license. In
California, another study showed that those who have never held a valid license
are about five times more likely to be involved in a fatal road accident than
licensed drivers. Statistically, that makes them an even greater danger on the
road than drivers whose licenses have been suspended or revoked – and nearly as
dangerous as drunk drivers. King also reports eight American children are
victims of sexual abuse by illegal aliens every day – a total of 2,920
annually. Based on a one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the
Violent Crimes Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal
immigrant sex offenders in the United States who have had an average of four
victims each. She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006
that included serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child
molestation committed by illegal immigrants. As the number of illegal aliens in
the U.S. increases, so does the number of American victims. According to Edwin
Rubenstien, president of ESR Research Economic Consultants, in Indianapolis in
1980, federal and state correctional facilities held fewer than 9,000 criminal
aliens. But at the end of 2003, approximately 267,000 illegal aliens were
incarcerated in all U.S. jails and prisons. While the federal government
doesn't track illegal alien murders, illegal alien rapes or illegal alien drunk
driving deaths, it has studied illegal aliens incarcerated in U.S. prisons. In
April 2005, the Government Accountability Office released a report on a study
of 55,322 illegal aliens incarcerated in federal, state, and local facilities
during 2003. It found the following: The 55,322 illegal aliens studied
represented a total of 459,614 arrests – some eight arrests per illegal alien;
Their arrests represented a total of about 700,000 criminal offenses – some 13
offenses per illegal alien; 36 percent had been arrested at least five times
before. "While the vast majority of illegal aliens are decent people who
work hard and are only trying to make a better life for themselves and their
families, (something you or I would probably do if we were in their place), it
is also a fact that a disproportionately high percentage of illegal aliens are
criminals and sexual predators," states Peter Wagner, author of a new
report called "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration." "That is
part of the dark side of illegal immigration and when we allow the 'good' in we
get the 'bad' along with them. The question is, how much 'bad' is acceptable
and at what price?"
According to the HERITAGE
FOUNDATION.or, the Mexican invasion will cost us 3.7 trillion ABOVE what the
illegals put into the economy.
The Violent Crimes
Institute in Atlanta is a real place. They did a real study. These are the real results. 'Based on a
one-year in-depth study, Deborah Schurman-Kauflin of the Violent Crimes
Institute of Atlanta estimates there are about 240,000 illegal immigrant sex
offenders in the United States who have had an average of four victims each.
She analyzed 1,500 cases from January 1999 through April 2006 that included
serial rapes, serial murders, sexual homicides and child molestation committed
by illegal immigrants.'
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